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Boyd’s Bible Dictionary
:
A stormy northeast
wind
of the Levant (
Acts 27:14
14
But not long after there arose against it a tempestuous wind, called Euroclydon. (Acts 27:14)
).
Concise Bible Dictionary
:
The name used by the sailors for a tempestuous
wind
in the Mediterranean, experienced when
Paul
was being taken to
Rome
(
Acts 27:14
14
But not long after there arose against it a tempestuous wind, called Euroclydon. (Acts 27:14)
). The etymology of
the word
is not known: some MSS read εὐρακύλων,
euraquilo
. It may simply imply a furious wind, like a Levanter in modern
times
, irrespective of the quarter from where it blew.
Jackson’s
Dictionary of Scripture Proper Names
:
an easterly tempest